 When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not ; in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.  The Works of the English Poets: Milton - Page 180by Samuel Johnson - 1779Full view - About this book
 | Michael Harrison, Christopher Stuart-Clark - Poetry - 1989 - 216 pages
...their groans Who were thy sheep and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills, and they To Heaven. Their martyred blood and ashes sow O'er all th' Italian fields where still doth sway The triple... | |
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